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Joe Biden’s re-election bid is off to a bad start

April 29, 2023

President Joe Biden’s campaign team finally announced that he is running for re-election. The announcement was made in a three-minute video released online early Tuesday morning.

Later that day the president did appear in person before a crowd of building trades union members, putting to rest any fears that the entire campaign might be AI-generated.

There’s no doubt it will be well-padded to protect against the slings and arrows of outrageous questions. The president speaks only in front of friendly audiences and carefully vetted news reporters. Last week, cameras captured photos of Biden’s hand gripping his scripted notes for a press conference, with the pre-selected question from the pre-selected Los Angeles Times reporter embarrassingly printed on the first page.

Well, most people would be embarrassed. It’s different in Washington.

The protective sleeve around this president will not be penetrated by sharp questions during presidential debates in the primary campaign because there won’t be any, the Democratic National Committee just announced. President Biden will not have to defend his record on the same stage with recently announced challenger Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who officially entered the race on April 19 and quickly drew the support of 19% of Democratic primary voters, according to a Fox News poll, 21% according to a poll by Emerson College. The other announced challenger for the nomination, Marianne Williamson, polled under 10% in both surveys.

The Emerson poll found that President Biden’s job approval rating is 41% nationally, with 35% of Democratic voters saying they think the party’s nominee for president should be someone else. Although 65% of Democratic voters told the pollsters they think Biden should be the nominee, that’s a six-point drop from the 71% who said so in February.

Biden’s team could see more challengers enter the race, but the biggest challenge could come from someone who wasn’t on their radar until very recently: an IRS whistleblower.

While the once-esteemed White House press corps meekly submits questions in advance of scripted news conferences and waits to find out who will be chosen for a speaking part, there’s a full-blown political scandal happening right in front of everybody, complete with grasping family members, suspicious wire transfers, payments from foreign adversaries, possible tax evasion and what looks like an international influence-peddling scheme that enriched the Biden family for years.

If the White House press corps continues its relentless reporting on the president’s ice cream cones and cute German Shepherd puppy, you can be your own reporter by going to the website of the House Oversight Committee at oversight.house.gov and clicking “Media Center,” “Biden Family Investigation.” A detailed report is coming out soon, according to committee chair Rep. James Comer, R-Kentucky. On Thursday, Comer wrote on Twitter, “We are following the Biden money trail and will uncover the truth.”

In a recent interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo, Comer described bank records now in his committee’s possession that show multiple relatives of President Biden receiving payments from foreign entities. It isn’t only the president’s son Hunter who collected the money, Comer said. At least nine family members are implicated so far and the number could jump to at least 12.

Comer said the committee has yet to find any actual work, product or service provided by any of those family members that would explain the payments. “There isn’t a single one of those family members that had the ability to do anything to influence foreign policy other than the big guy, Joe Biden,” Comer said.

Further, Comer revealed, Biden family members created multiple limited liability companies that shielded their identities. “Through our informants and through our research over the past year and through other investigative reporting, we thought there were around a dozen of these LLCs that were created by Biden family members to disguise or launder where the source of the revenue was coming from,” he said, “But there are many more LLCs. There are many more Biden members … and many more countries that were involved.”

You know from White House news coverage that the president’s favorite ice cream flavor is chocolate chip and his newest puppy’s name is Commander, but you may not know that Hunter Biden has been under federal criminal investigation for charges related to taxes since 2018. Now an IRS whistleblower has come forward to say that the investigation, which he supervised for three years, was mishandled. Through his attorney, he informed Senate and House committee chairmen and ranking members that he wants to tell them about the “preferential treatment” and “conflict of interest” he witnessed. He also alleges that a senior Justice Department official, reportedly Attorney General Merrick Garland, gave false testimony to Congress.

Holy vanilla swirl. How could all of this be happening and not be splashed all over the front pages of every newspaper in America? Why aren’t White House reporters shouting at the president as he walks to his helicopter and demanding answers?

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That’s OK, you don’t need them. On oversight.house.gov you can read a March 16 news release about “new evidence resulting from the investigation into the Biden family’s influence peddling and business schemes.” The committee subpoenaed financial records and found that from 2015 to 2017, “Biden family members — Hunter Biden, James Biden, Hallie Biden and an unknown ‘Biden’ — and their companies collectively received $1.3 million in payments from accounts related to Rob Walker, a Biden family associate.”

Walker’s company received a $3 million wire from a Chinese company, State Energy HK Limited, shortly before his company sent more than $1 million to various Bidens. “It is unclear what services were provided to obtain this exorbitant amount of money,” Comer said in a statement.

That would be a good question to ask in a news conference or in a presidential debate. Or maybe one day it will be asked in a courtroom.

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